Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.
Marvin Hagler

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
Maria Edgeworth

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
Garrison Keillor

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
Bryant H. McGill

The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
Walter Winchell

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
Billy Graham

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
Marianne Williamson

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
Marquis de Sade

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
Emma Goldman

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
E. O. Wilson

The public seldom forgive twice.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.
Lewis Grizzard

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mohandas Gandhi

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
Margaret Mitchell

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
Karl Kraus

There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws.
George A. Romero

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Lord Chesterfield